Chapter Chat - There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

This term we have been part of Chapter Chat, a twitter based book chat. We have read a book called ‘There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom’ which is about a boy named Bradley Chalkers. Bradley and his friend Jeff Fishkin play together. Most people hate Bradley, especially Colleen. His counsellor Carla left the school because there were too many complaints.

Every Friday we went on Twitter with other schools in New Zealand that are also part of Chapter Chat. When we are on Twitter we answered questions in small groups about what we had read in the last week. Each week we also had to complete at least one quality Chapter Chat activity to share on Twitter.

This is one of my activities where I made a birthday game named Food Hunter. You need to hide food around a small yard. I made this with Keegan.

This is my second activity where I made a menu for Bradley's school lunch. It has lots of yummy things to eat.

This is my third activity where I went onto Minecraft and then built a life sized bedroom for Bradley. This is what I think his bedroom looks like.

Which one was your favourite?

Haiku poem

In Jackson's Studio, as part of our poetry unit for writing we have been learning how to write a haiku poem. A haiku poem is a popular Japanese poem that traditionally has three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.

We took our notebooks into the playground and brainstormed words associated with an object. I chose a basketball hoop because is easy and fun to write about.

Next we came inside and composed our haiku poem using a website.

Here is mine, I hope you enjoy it.